saddle

saddle [sædəl]

1.[NOUN] A saddle is a leather seat that you put on the back of an animal so that you can ride the animal.
→ see also side-saddle

2.[NOUN] A saddle is a seat on a bicycle or motorcycle.

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1.[VERB] If you saddle a horse, you put a saddle on it so that you can ride it.
Why don't we saddle a couple of horses and go for a ride?play
¶ Saddle up means the same as saddle. [PHRASAL VERB]
¶ I want to be gone from here as soon as we can saddle up.
¶ She saddled up a horse.

2.[VERB] If you saddle someone with a problem or with a responsibility, you put them in a position where they have to deal with it.
¶ The war devastated the economy and saddled the country with a huge foreign debt.